Scott Walker, Wisconsin governor, is in the running for conservative poster boy in this country, his approach to governing has been that of a slash and burn policy directly impacting education, the environment, any form of social programs, and equity those who work for a living.

To say that Walker envisions himself as presidential material is an understatement, he is a man who would be a King capable of arbitrarily imposing his will upon his subjects, and like feudal kings of past and present apparently favors his own version of serfs and servitude.

Walker’s ties to the infamous Koch brothers is in itself an indictment, his record of such an association defining.

In the expansion of governmental power, often times not only illegal but unconstitutional as was well, I think it appropriate to in turn “monitor” their activities, and hopefully this request to monitor Walker as he romps about Europe in an attempt to resume build for a presidential bid will further expose the global reality and threat of corporate owned Scott Walker presidency replete with it’s own version of sharia law.

Walker is doing his best to maintain the continuity of “god fearing, America love or it leave it,” Republican bobble heads.

Republicans are long on talk about reducing the size of government, something many in this country agree with, including myself – but such a reduction should be accompanied by empowering people, the Republican and Tea Party model however is one that would transfer power to corporations as being good for “bidnus” and America.

On the other hand the Dems are all about increasing the size and expenditures, that resonates with many who believe government is meant to be a bottomless well providing any and everything a person might need overlooking the reality that the more any government is capable of doing so two things occur – taxation skyrockets and again a transference of additional power takes place as illustrated in the “prolonged detention” video. Not only that but dependency in nearly facet of life increases.

The threat of a “new legal regime” constructed by the Obama administration negates any “good” talking points his supporters may offer, though they just can’t seem to bring themselves to say so – the threat of a Walker administration will be accompanied by it’s own rule of law, and likewise Walker’s supporters can’t bring themselves to admit that.

These are the realities that lead me to say once having gotten past the rhetoric, partisanship, and fluff there isn’t a nickles worth of difference between the parties where it truly matters, and that is the Constitutional empowerment of the people and “certain inalienable rights”.

The similarities between Walker, Nixon, and Bush are obvious, so obvious in fact one might be driven to question if there is a familial bond, all of the persuasion that an imperial presidency is what the country needs….but then Obama with his new law “regime” seems to think so as well.

And so the question becomes not a matter of who cares but who are willing to hold those they elect accountable?

Women can be very impish at times, even mischievious one might say, and love playing a joke as much as men do.

The above photo is of the remnants of a piece of material found at a thrift store – remnants of what is left from a article of clothing they are making.

The article of clothing? A ribbon shirt for me.

Now, I like color, even exuberant color at times, but this is pushing the envelope and I can’t really imagine anyone wearing something this gaudy.

I make every effort to show appreciation for the many things women contribute to a relationship and household, that’s something that’s known, and I think translates to an expectation that I will actually wear what is “gifted” to me and presents something of a personal quandry…..as every instinct says no way in hell.

One things for sure though, there aren’t going to be any selfies, and grandfather has asked that if and when I do to avoid direct sunlight as in such light blindness could ensue for onlookers, that’s payback for putting on a pair of welding goggles one time when he appeared in his Hawaiian shirt. Hawaiian shirt gifted by guess who?

I’m used to being measured for clothes and kind of just zone through it, but as there are several pieces of material they acquired lulled into a false sense of security.

You see what I mean when I say impish andmischievious ? On the surface it may have appearedinnocent enough but this additional material was probably part of the plan – something to throw me off.

Now you would think grandfather being a man would have my back, but he’s actually encouraging them with compliments about the fine job they’re doing accompanied by an unmistakeable twinkle in his eye.

I could just say it’s such a magnificent garment I would only wear on special occasions, occasions that will never arise if I play my cards right.

But I’m not sure that’s the best approach as undoubtedly they would declare some mundane event special and turn those doe eyes on me with an expectant look.

In the back of my mind a plan is brewing that could turn the tables, like coming up with a pair of purple pants and one of those pimp hats to round the look out and saying we should run into town.

I’m thinking it would be such an embarrassment they would have to backup – if not then I’d really be stepping in it, kind of like playing Russian Roulette if they didn’t blink first.

Another possibility is to convince the hounds it constitutes a threat and rely on them to shred it, but then I’d have to make a show of admonishing them while slipping them a bone and I wouldn’t want to confuse them or abuse their trust….after all, they do have fangs.

Necessity may well be the mother of invention, if so desperation runs a close second.

“Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life, while poverty persists, there is no true freedom.”…Nelson Mandela

Poverty, a fundamental injustice incrementally increasing everyday as social and economic differences evolve into what only best be described as global caste system.

Below is a link to a Rolling Stone article related to the now infamous Koch brothers, as the link is followed an additional link is available extolling the “charitable” works of the Kochs, sort of a point counterpoint – the one detailing the reality and the other an attempt to run interference.

It doesn’t matter what charitable donations the Koch empire has made to cancer research in consideration of the 24 million metric tons of carcinogenic pollutants their enterprises spew, I would say the better characterization would be that of reparations.

It doesn’t matter whether they donate to black scholarships or not as they are the epitome of the face of conservatism along with individuals like Rush Limbaugh in this country that considers minorities as second class citizens.

When you have an estimated 115 billion dollars in assets, pour millions into lobbying campaigns to manipulate and influence politicians and elections to create and exercise favorable loopholes and legislation such “charitable” deeds become little more than public relations and tax write offs.

“I saw this comment made in response to the above photo on the Leonard Peltier Still Guilty site- it of course is made in reference to the flag Russell is posing in, and a fair enough question if it represents the poster’s opinion.

But I would ask another-HOW DO YOU HONOR A MAN WHO HAD NO HONOR ?

A man that lied, scammed, hustled, and promoted his way through life.

A man who when push came to shove following his assault on his then eighty year old father in law and the Dine attempted to exercise their sovereign right to hold him accountable immediately launched into his now infamous Chinle defense where he made every effort to kick sovereignty not only for the Dine, but for all the nations under the bus to save his own singularly sorry ass.

Has everyone forgotten that’s what the nations have been fighting for for over five centuries? Have they forgotten the body count- the reservation system, the boarding schools? Have they forgotten our children had their heads bashed in, our women raped and gutted even if pregnant-their breasts made into tobacco pouches?

Would they say now that in the past when reservations agents enriched themselves at our expense it is somehow different if Means, Banks, and their cronies have done likewise? Is this what the last real Indians is about?

The better question is what has become of the last real Indians-where are they to be found? On the net pushing their wares or promoting themselves and their sites? Or showing up at rallies for an appearance fee? Are they the ones who have the “foundations”always dunning people for a donation for some “project”?

Are they the ones who obstruct and deny justice and closure for victims and their survivors-the same one’s who call anyone seeking those things feds, rats, and whatever other lies they can spew off their last real Indian tongues?

Are they the same ones who don’t have a damn word to say about the reality of rape and abuses our women and children face?

If so what does that make them-merely “controversial”?

How do you honor a man who says he knew who was responsible for the murder of Annie Mae but had given his “word” not to tell-choosing instead to prolong the grief of her children and family?

How do you honor a man who not only assisted in leading the assault on WK2 that ransacked, murdered, pillaged, and looted,the homes, businesses, and lives, of indigenous people, and then lied and boasted about it for decades? One cannot say his people because he was not Lakota.

How do you honor a man who was the equivalent of a Mafia Don in a criminal organization?

I know how it is done-by refusing to address the realities and instead say Russell was a “controversial figure” and leaving it at that.

But then genocide regardless of whose hands it is at is always “controversial” isn’t it? As are all the other crimes he and cohorts are guilty of.

I don’t much care about a lot of codes, like Manifest Destiny, and treaties that can be said to be “codes”, and I haven’t forgotten that the code of this flag represented death and destruction for our people just the same as AIM’s flag has-and I sure as hell don’t care about the code of Me-ism Russell lived his life by.

A personal code that commodified the misery, history, and poverty of indigenous people.

You cannot honor such a person-you can only honor the truth by speaking it. Something these last real Indians can’t seem to bring themselves to do.”

Russell Means from his drug dealing, woman pimping, scam artist, and in the least aiding and abetting the murders and multiple crimes committed by AIM was about as sorry an individual as you could find.The difference between him and the spirit of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull is as vast as the Universe – the same could be said of Dennis Banks, Leonard Peltier, Leonard Crow Dog, and Clyde Bellecourt.

Global unrest seems to be increasing in an almost geometric fashion – people are taking it to the streets pretty much wherever you look. Brazil being the latest, along with Turkey’s Standing Man protest.

It is very much a matter of class warfare, a gasping for air by those whose heads are repeatedly held under the water of inequity and oppressive policies.

Governmental and economic inequities aren’t confined to any one country or any one system, nor is the widening chasm between the haves and have nots, those with access and those who have none.

And always somewhere in the background corruption and corporate greed can be found, which are the real plagues- a global pandemic.

“Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea… and ideas are bulletproof.” A quote from the movie V and truth lays within it.

You can kill the body but an idea whose time has come is a different story.

Protest is always viewed suspiciously, a level of paranoia accompanies it by those who it is directed against. Scenarios evolve of an armed revolt, barbarians at the gate-yet protest is the oldest of recourse to address grievances and there is no standard that it morphs into armed insurrection- no one is advocating for that, only to be heard and their voice, their will, to amount to something as it should in a “representative government”.

So much so tattered documents known as the Constitution and the Bill of Rights recognized and sought to preserve this right to protest.

As such protest should be welcomed-seen as an indication that people have a conscience and desire a voice, input in directions taken-an inherent right of all people.

When that right is routinely denied or ignored it is then that the Assanges, the Bradleys, the Snowdens , and the whistle blowers appear.

The value of protest is measured in part by what is accomplished or what is lost, but the reality is something greater.

In this day an age of immediacy, of needing instant gratification, if results aren’t immediate people tire, they become bored, the attention span and level of commitment wanes, they get juked and marginalized by the media-this lends itself to a waiting game and the addition of new props as the past becomes prologue.

Inequities that aren’t remediated don’t go away, and usually worsen.

The indigenous nations of this country have been protesting for over five centuries-it is only recently that our collective voice has been heard as a whisper in the courts.If what a person or people would protest is valid then the obligation is to stay the course regardless of how long it takes.

There has never been a time when feudalism could be said to equitable, and it is difficult to describe the present system of wealth migrating to the top as anything less than a modern incarnation of feudalism replete with fiefdoms and a population defined by indebted serfs.

Sharecroppers, who despite the illusion own little they claim.

Some may deny this, and when they do motives should be examined, for as they say denial is something more than a river in Egypt.

Governments are said to govern by consent-at least this government, and asserts that it does so by majority rule, when the majority dissent this rule then must be reflected in government or it is no longer representative, it no longer has consent.

One percent of the nations population hold an egregiously disproportionate amount of the wealth, and when legislation is examined it is their interests, what facilitates their wealth and the acquisition of more that is prioritized over the interests of the remaining ninety nine percent of the population- a recipe guaranteed to at some point lead to protest.

We are told that the existing level of domestic spying is essential to national security-to the well being of each person-yet a person is more apt to be killed by some nut running loose with an assault rifle than a foreign terrorist, more apt to be killed in an auto accident, more apt to be killed in a home related accident.

Does this then translate to a mentality that we should be “protected” by say, having our bath or shower time monitored, or a daily inspection of the vehicles we operate?

Security -defense of the homeland are necessary, but not by stripping the individual of such things as the Fourth Amendment.

Not by Microsoft allowing known exploits to exist to facilitate the NSA or anyone.

Not by Google, Yahoo, Apple, or anyone kowtowing to and allowing intrusive programs.

The Supreme Court ruled in 1979 that no “reasonable” expectation of privacy exists when you send a letter or make a call.

Obviously the ’79 SC was flawed as there are various laws governing theft of mail-you can’t just arbitrarily open your neighbors mail for example-such laws are at least a minimal nod to a reasonable expectation of privacy.

Now we have FISA courts-who operate in the dark and are accountable to no one, and we are told this is both legal and constitutional, for our protection, and the question must be asked who protects us from the guardians?

Who would stifle our right to protest? Who guards the gate against the real barbarians?

“Clare Daly, an Irish politician went off on Obama the other day, compared him to a war criminal related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the use of drones that kill civilian non combatants of which women and children are victims.

Didn’t mince words and said exactly what she believes-I respect that- doesn’t require agreement only appreciation for her willingness to do so.

I can’t help but draw a comparison to the V2 rockets Germany launched during WW2, their affect on civilian populations, and the use of drones now. Technologically inferior, but the drones of their day.

A great deal has changed between now and then on the one hand and on the other not much has.

A reality of change is that in itself it becomes a vehicle for change-a vehicle that must be directed rather than to be a random event or allowed to be manipulated by others.

To hear some people tell it America once roared like lions for liberty, now it seems as though they bleat like sheep for security. A paraphrase of a quote author unknown to me.

All you have to do is instill a little fear in people, tell them they are at risk, threatened, and the bleating will begin-they’ll go for the proverbial fried ice cream.

Doesn’t matter the cost, what they give up, just as long as they can be convinced it’s for their protection.

A favorite line of the military and government when confining the nations to reservations was to tell both sides it was in part for their protection.

We would be ” protected” from marauding white men and in turn whites would be protected from marauding red men.

Of course the end game was to make us white so we in turn could join the herd and bleat as well.

Admittedly a measure of success was achieved in this, as it’s difficult at times with some to tell where the red stops and the white begins- but I think they call themselves patriots and liberators.

Personally I don’t see a difference between gang bangers regardless of their nationality, and believe any people who have them in their midst would be better of without them.

Rapists, thieves, murderers, and con artists are all cut from the same cloth-share the same dysfunctionality inspite of the language they speak.

They bleat excuses and expect others to bleat along with them in unison, and some with the herd mentality will.

For too long the nations haven’t controlled the changes they’ve encountered, and it hasn’t made any difference if change was a matter of internal or external influences.

That made us vulnerable and ripe for the plucking.

The government has done it, corporations have done it, LPDOC has done it, and AIM has done it.”

Obama supporters no doubt rose up in unison to ask who does this Irish ragamuffin Daly think she is to say such things?

Their right to do so, but they should also be asking who does this or any president think they are to authorize drone strikes that routinely kill innocent non combatant men, women, and children?

I can’t help but wonder what weapons would have been used against the nations had they been available, how many more women and children would have been killed?

“Alliances are formed predicated upon the perception of being mutually beneficial during peace or wartime.

Often they take the form of trade, cultural exchanges, or mutual defense treaties.

If this observation is a correct people should examine the underlying motivation and what benefits ensue.

As a people the nations should take a look at the alliances AIM has sought and engaged in, the transparency of them, and in doing so note the obvious motivation and feel obliged to speak against them.

These alliances from Iran, Libya, and Russia, to the CPUSA are characterized by vast ideological and cultural differences having little if anything in common with ours.

Does anyone truly believe they give a rip about us? Does anyone truly believe they would respect and honor our beliefs, allow us to practice them if they were in power?

The obvious answer is hell no, we’d either convert or pay the price.

Anyone think Russia would allow us to be anything other than communists adhering to the party doctrine?

So what’s in it for AIM? Easy answer – besides money in the form of “foreign aid” AIM’s perverted sense of legitimacy in aligning with oppressive governments and fellow bullies.

We profess to be a freedom loving people, every man, woman, and child of us engaged in a long running struggle for autonomy – yet AIM would have us jump from the frying pan into the fire, and claim they speak for us while doing so.

AIM, especially the leadership, promotes the image of being all about sovereignty and self determination, of being committed to the well being of the nations.

If this is true how do they justify dropping their pants and bending over to such as these nations? More to the point how can any of our people be supportive of AIM in doing so?”

I would encourage the reader to follow the link to the original blog as there are a couple of very pointed and telling comments.